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This paper formally specifies a document model for office information systems, including formal definitions of document types (frame templates), a document type hierarchy, folders, and folder organizations. Folder Organizations are defined using predicates and directed graphs. AReconstruction Problem for folder organizations is then formulated; viz., under what circumstances it is possible to reconstruct a folder organization from its folder level predicates. The Reconstruction Problem is solved in terms of such graph-theoretic concepts as Associated Digraphs, transitive closure, and redundant/nonredundant filing paths. A Transitive Closure Inversion algorithm is then presented which efficiently recovers a Folder Organization digraph from its Associated Digraph.
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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IRI-9224602, by the New Jersey Institute of Technology undre Grant No. 421280 and by a grant from AT&T Foundation.
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Zhu, Z., Mchugh, J.A., Wang, J.T.L. et al. A formal approach to modeling office information systems. Journal of Systems Integration 4, 373–403 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01976280
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